Quotes About Maturity

As time has gone on I've felt less and less need to play too many notes. That's something you do when you're younger, you play far too much and too fast.

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

When you're younger, it's all about conformity and being easily influenced - especially in terms of fashion. You just follow the trends. Whatever is hot at the moment, you want to get it. You basically just want to be doing what everyone else is doing. But as you get older, those things aren't as important.

I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

There's things that I see that I did on videos when I was younger that I be like, 'Damn, I was bugging.' Champagne Dame, that dude, he was bugging. I don't even know that guy.

When I was younger, I was an aggressive fighter but I'm growing into someone who understands we don't have to answer things with violence.

When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

Yeah, I don't mess with chicks younger. They got to be almost thirty.

When I was younger, things got to me more, but not now.

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.

I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.

I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).

Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

It would have been very impossible to deal with this attention when I was younger. I'm thrilled with the success, but at this point I also think it's hilariously silly.

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.